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Editorial
Trouble with FCAT
By choosing to fight a court ruling making students' FCAT score sheets available to parents, Gov. Bush raises further questions about his education priorities.

Editorial
Turmoil in Treasure Island
The treasure on Treasure Island has long been sun, sand and tranquility. The sun and sand are still there but tranquility has been shattered by a fight over new development regulations.

Letters
Self-exams can be valuable in detecting tumors
Re: Study: Breast self-exams may not matter, Oct. 2.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
A pedestrian palate meets the elegance of le fromage
Without shame, I report to you being recently in France.

Ernest Hooper
Black professionals mesh; Goodwill in Wal-Mart's shadow
There were afro wigs (I think they were wigs), platform shoes, wildly designed polyester outfits and silk shirts that would have made John Travolta proud. A couple of people were sporting long-forgotten tams and the sound of funk music filled the clubhouse at Parker's Landing in Town 'N Country.

John Romano
Gimme FIVE
TALK OF THE TOWN

Gary Shelton
Defense has more defining moments
ATLANTA -- There are times, when the lights are going out, you almost feel sorry for the opponent.

Sara Fritz
Young doctors may avoid Fla.
WASHINGTON -- Seniors with high prescription drug bills are not the only folks who have been disappointed by Congress' failure to enact Medicare reforms this year.

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.